Adolescent Childbearing Revisited: The Age of Inner-city Mothers at Delivery Is a Determinant of Their Children's Self-sufficiency at Age 27 to 33

Data from recent interviews with 1758 inner-city children, born between 1960 to 1965 and followed with their mothers in the Pathways to Adulthood Study to age 27 to 33 years, were used to address two related questions. 1) Is maternal age, across the reproductive age range, a determinant of child...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1997-11, Vol.100 (5), p.802-809
Main Authors: Hardy, Janet B, Shapiro, Sam, Astone, Nan M, Miller, Therese L, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Hilton, Sterling C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Age
Age Factors
Autonomy in children
Biological and medical sciences
Black people
Causes of
Child autonomy
Children & youth
Collaboration
Developmental psychology
Education
Educational Status
Employment
Families & family life
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Inner city
Interviews
Logistic Models
Male
Maternal Age
Miscellaneous
Mothers
Multivariate Analysis
Older parents
Pediatrics
Poverty
Pregnancy
Pregnancy in Adolescence
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
ROC Curve
Self sufficiency
Urban Population
Womens health
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Summary:Data from recent interviews with 1758 inner-city children, born between 1960 to 1965 and followed with their mothers in the Pathways to Adulthood Study to age 27 to 33 years, were used to address two related questions. 1) Is maternal age, across the reproductive age range, a determinant of child's adult outcome? and 2) Do covariates of maternal age at delivery reduce or eliminate the effect of maternal age on child's adult outcome? An intergenerational life course model of development identified significant maternal and child characteristics at birth associated with the child's self-sufficient outcomes in adulthood: education (more than or equal to a high school diploma); financial independence of public support; and delay of first birth until age 20 or older. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression techniques were used to identify independent relationships between dependent and independent variables and to adjust the outcomes to compensate for the effect of possible confounding of maternal age at delivery by maternal education, parity, poverty status, and the child's race and gender. Each covariate was independently associated with maternal age at delivery. Adjustment for their effects reduced, but did not eliminate, the association between maternal age at birth and the child's outcome at age 27 to 33 years. As a group, children of the oldest mothers (>/=25 years of age) had the most favorable outcomes, and those of teenage mothers (
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.100.5.802